West_of_West@piefed.social
on 24 Aug 18:20
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Beware the chuck wagon racing girl!
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
on 24 Aug 13:34
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Luckily you can already get those at your local stable AND with a bit of leather at your local bdsm club!
WoodScientist@lemmy.world
on 24 Aug 14:32
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Wonāt someone think of the poor working class furries? A fur suit can already cost 10 or 20 grand. Now theyāre going to have to add cyborg body parts to the mix as well? Talk about gentrification!
CitizenKong@lemmy.world
on 24 Aug 14:37
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The rich are going to take every last thing from us
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
on 24 Aug 19:22
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wait what. i made one for 200 bucks that the theater program i made it for is still using 30 years later (i build shit to last). you mean i could make money doing that?
WoodScientist@lemmy.world
on 24 Aug 21:25
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Iām not in that community myself, but from what I hear a high quality for suit can cost $10-20k. Not sure what differences in construction may exist between those and what you made. But some artists definitely make decent livings making them.
Iām not part of that community, but Iāve built props for advertisements and museum installations; durability and reliability are where most of the money is, especially in low volume products.
Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world
on 24 Aug 13:14
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Also these ears will help to uh, absorb the echoes and extra noise of the world around you. Yeah.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
on 24 Aug 14:15
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Wait, I ā¦ could make human-cat hears that actually have microphones in them and that turn towards the gaze and they could actually ear out of them if theyāre wearing linked earphones ā¦ could even do some psychoacoustic filtering to give some kind of āsuperearingā ability ā¦
Then some cunt like Elon is going to just steal my ideaā¦ meh. ā¦ eff it
Damn, this is totally gonna be a thing, and Iām all for it. We shall all become cute cat girls.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
on 24 Aug 14:46
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Why do I keep doing this
Use a combination of different size microphones diaphragms and not just MEMS devices,
Use the earshape parabolic concentration points for finding the optimal location and orientation of diaphragms
include ultrasonic transceivers for out of band perception (also echolocation, room mapping, darksight)
also to allow covert/out of band ultrasound communication with other catgirls that normies cannot hear (that means connecting transceivers AS transceivers, with US band amplifier for transmission)
Using servogalvos to modify ear shape for acoustic focusing, if ear direction is using a gear drive, use double helical gear and a low acoustic profile dampening coating on the gears (acoustic anti-reflection) because we are making a listening device and we donāt want to listen to gear noises ! Consider ultrasonic motors instead of geared drive.
Software wise, using direct wifi and ble for communication (DECT sucks, proprietary standard sucks) this should work with a raspberry pi and only open source software out of the box, no drivers needed, yes that means multichannel transmission and do all the processing off device
actual software, weāre using the various microphones as an asynchronous, heterogenous phased array, unlike regular phased arrays which have many identifical receivers along a straight plane here we are going to skip a couple technological steps and use āreceiver diversityā in the phased array design, so not only are the receivers in different places NOT on a plane, they are also receivers with different acoustic profiles (different sensibility of different frequencies) and anisotropic (due to ear ālens-shapeā) reception patterns, so all of that diversity has to be correlated between all receivers to create an acoustic map of the world, so that we can decide also what sounds are psychoacoustically relevant and point the ears in that direction, listen if the received signal is actually signal or noise and then send that to the user, in realtime (max processing time is 20ms top end)
make sure ear shape flexibility is enough to receive and focus some signal backwardsā¦ thereās still a few things to consider but I think thatās mostly it, for the earbud, use close loop ear canal acoustic feedback for the amplifier drive, use only open standards and open firmware in all devices. System to use myoelectic ear movement as control input feedback, at least with these two modes, ear movement to manual steering of the acoustic phased array, and the other ear movement to select auditory focus of signal sources (that is, automatic switching between detected relevant auditory sources). Add RED+IR laser pointer to the ears that can be used as a pointed, to indicate (covertly for IR) which auditory source is currently select and in what direction this signal currently use (ensure positional live tracking is reflected in beam direction). Use sub-vocal command interface for higher function control of the listening device. Provide standardized pattern and calibration equipment definition for microphone correlation calibration, use only open hardware assemblages. Include live transcription to text of all received text, ensure at least capacity for 12 simultaneous audio to text transcription channel, include live audio MP3QR decoding and all other digital audio transmission standard live decoding and transcription as part of the transcription channel capability. Include text summary ability, include voice signature automatic identification and tagging of decoded text stream, at least 4 terabyte storage space, maximum head weight 150 gram excluding battery, battery system must have 1 minute with no battery operation time or dual battery swapping system. include hardware audio encoder and decoder supporting all current ffmpeg codecs. Include acoustic counter battery targetting receiver system. Oh almost forgot, dual laser system mounted with microprism(for aimed laser microphone ability, to listen sounds through walls or from vibrating surfaces)
Ok Machine, convert this schizo-ing document into Ratheon Cybernetic Auditory Telemetry & Echolocation with Anisotropic Reception (CAT&EAR) engineering requirement draft document
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
on 24 Aug 15:29
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š°ļø Raytheon CAT&EAR System
Cybernetic Auditory Telemetry & Echolocation with Anisotropic Reception
Engineering Requirements Draft ā v1.0
š Document Overview
This document outlines the full set of engineering requirements for the CAT&EAR system, a wearable, cybernetic auditory perception platform. CAT&EAR is a heterogeneous, phased-array auditory sensor suite that uses biomimetic design, ultrasonic telemetry, laser vibrometry, and advanced audio signal processing to enable real-time environmental awareness and communication.
The system is designed to operate autonomously, using only open standards and open-source software, while supporting embedded AI-driven perceptual functions. This document reflects both functional and non-functional requirements for CAT&EAR across all relevant subsystems.
The CAT&EAR system (Cybernetic Auditory Telemetry & Echolocation with Anisotropic Reception) is a next-generation, wearable auditory intelligence platform designed for advanced signal perception, real-time environmental awareness, and covert communication. It leverages a biomimetic ear design combined with a heterogeneous microphone arrayāfeaturing diverse diaphragms and directional acoustic profilesāto form an asynchronous, non-planar phased array. This allows it to isolate, enhance, and track psychoacoustically relevant audio sources with high spatial precision, even in noisy or cluttered environments. Real-time beamforming, signal classification, and source switching are handled off-device via open-source DSP pipelines, ensuring low latency (ā¤20 ms) and full operational transparency.
In addition to traditional sound acquisition, CAT&EAR incorporates ultrasonic echolocation and laser vibrometry, enabling through-wall audio surveillance and remote surface vibration analysis using IR/RED laser beams with microprism-guided targeting. The system includes a covert ultrasonic communication channel, allowing encrypted, inaudible data exchange between unitsāideal for non-verbal team coordination. Myoelectric sensors and sub-vocal command inputs provide silent, intuitive control interfaces for users, allowing manual beam steering or hands-free selection of tracked sound sources. Ear motion actuators and a visible/infrared laser pointer visually indicate attention direction, enhancing situational awareness without audible cues.
Field usage scenarios include reconnaissance, electronic surveillance, remote eavesdropping, low-visibility communication, and audio-based environmental mapping in both urban and wilderness environments. The system is optimized for silent operation, rapid deployment, and open hardware integration. All processing occurs locally or on an open compute platform (e.g., Raspberry Pi), with no reliance on proprietary software or cloud infrastructure. With up to 12-channel live transcription, digital audio decoding, 4TB onboard storage, and support for all major codecs, CAT&EAR serves both tactical intelligence roles and high-end experimental research in audio-based perception systems.
System requirements
š¤ Microphone Array & Acoustic Sensors
Mic Diaphragm Diversity ā Use MEMS and larger diaphragm mics.
Earshape Mic Placement ā Place mics at parabolic acoustic focus points.
Ultrasound Transceivers ā Include US sensors for echolocation and darksight.
Ultrasound Data Comms ā Use US transceivers for covert device communication.
Heterogeneous Phased Array ā Mic array shall be non-planar and diverse.
Frequency-Profile Diversity ā Use mics with different frequency sensitivities.
Anisotropic Reception ā Account for directional response patterns from ear shape.
Psychoacoustic Focus ā Detect and prioritize perceptually relevant signals.
Mic Cross-Correlation ā Synchronize all mic data spatially and temporally.
Real-Time Acoustic Map ā Build a 3D sound map from multi-mic input.
Mic Calibration Pattern ā Provide physical pattern for mic array calibration.
Open Hardware Calibration ā Use only open hardware for calibration tools.
š§ Ultrasonic Subsystem
Ultrasound Mapping ā Perform echolocation for 3D environmental awareness.
True Transceiver Mode ā Ultrasound sensors must transmit and receive.
Ultrasound Band Amp ā Include amplifier suitable for US transmission.
Covert US Communication ā Transmit data in inaudible US band.
Spatial Mapping via US ā Derive positional data from ultrasound TOF.
š Ear Shape & Actuation
Dynamic Ear Focus ā Use moving ear shapes to focus sound.
Servo Actuated Ears ā Use servos to reorient ears toward signals.
Double Helical Gears ā Use quiet gears for mechanical actua
DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works
on 27 Aug 23:50
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My robot detector is going offā¦ looks GPTādā¦
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
on 28 Aug 00:14
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How can you tell ?
Is it the em-dashes I left in ?
Or is it when I said
Ok Machine, convert this schizo-ing document into Ratheon Cybernetic Auditory Telemetry & Echolocation with Anisotropic Reception (CAT&EAR) engineering requirement draft document
If I wanted to, believe you me, I could have gotten the Gepetto taste out of this
But Iām not here to play cat and mouse games, Iām here to make the best goddamn cat hear youāve never heard of.
DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works
on 28 Aug 03:08
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It was the emojis used as bullet points, some that were not situationally relevant.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
on 28 Aug 03:35
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BTW I made those spoiler tags because the bullet points are categories of design requirements and the list would have been annoyingly long for anyone scrolling past
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
on 24 Aug 13:59
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They need to increase their birthrate somehow.
naught101@lemmy.world
on 24 Aug 14:00
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So, uh, you reckon you could fit eight of those on one person?
serenissi@lemmy.world
on 24 Aug 15:07
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contrary to popular beliefs real cat girls do exist in Japan. there is more information on the internet redlib.orangenet.cc/r/realscatgirls . unfortunately itās on reddit not on lemmy (yet).
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works
on 24 Aug 16:05
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The way itās depicted, the weight will be felt around the center point of the body. Thatās where it exerts the least force. Also I contest the notion that a difference of 5kg is that significant, even in elderly people.
Where the weight acts is significant imo, and the hips near the spine is probably most stable.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
on 24 Aug 13:37
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One of the typical bits of advice for elderly folks walking around is a five pound limit on carried items, so five kilos is probably going to affect things more. Poor mobility is a downward line though, not a sudden switch that is flipped, so there is a range of walking difficulties and Iām sure some of that range will be helped by a device like this.
Carried itens put strain along the sholders and entire spine, and contribute to a high center of gravity. Waist mounted items (like this tail) put strain on only the hips and legs, and in the most stable way. Iād only be worried if there was a particular problem with hips or legs.
apotheotic@beehaw.org
on 24 Aug 12:39
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I can imagine some will accidently put it on back to front, then either look confused as to whats happening or laugh in a sexually cringing kinda way š
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
on 24 Aug 14:33
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At best itās concept art, tho that thin strap probably wouldnāt serve the purpose theyāre looking for. At worst itās generated by clickbait article writers.
How could they pass up an āelectrified facehugger penis sheathā image like this?
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
on 25 Aug 09:19
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Do people just use āAIā now instead of āPhotoshoppedā
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 25 Aug 16:33
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What kind of office chair has one leg thatās 50% longer than the others and why is there a tube extending directly downward from the ceiling to above that chair? People cranking out this sort of thing absolutely use AI instead of Photoshop now.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
on 24 Aug 19:03
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In all seriousness, human elderlies are actually evolutionary anomaly, because if Darwinian tenet of āsurvival of the fittestā applies 100% of the time, they would not be the norm. But the fact that old people are prevalent in human society is the proof that we are compassionate and loving creatures that transcend cold evolutionary programming. We care for others and the vulnerable.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
on 24 Aug 19:22
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Almost all of it comes down to how long it takes to raise children. It takes a lot more people and effort and time to raise humans vs any other species, and its made us unique in that we have essentially support roles. Elderly people, people who canāt or dont want to have kids of their own, even older children, all have a role to play in making sure we make it to adulthood and continue the species.
Patches@ttrpg.network
on 24 Aug 20:19
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Does anyone currently have any elders taking care of their kids? Or having done so?
The current generation of Elders living today arenāt doing shit for support.
I would argue given how much voting power they have - they are actively making it worse for parents everyone
kieron115@startrek.website
on 24 Aug 20:25
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I think itās less common in north america than in other continents.
Itās becoming more common where I am for a couple to move back to somewhere near one of their sets of parents before they have kids so they can rely on them for occasional childcare since both of the new parents usually have jobs
The grandparents have jobs as well here in uk so nobody has families anymoreā¦
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
on 25 Aug 03:58
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Yes, my mother in law is living with us and helping is to take care of our 4 years old and 2 years old
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
on 25 Aug 04:09
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The āgrandmother theoryā is supporting this idea.
The idea is that past a certain age there is an evolutionary benefit to not be able to have kids anymore. Past a certain age, to pass our genes itās more beneficial to be able to help descendants with their kids rather than having kids on our own.
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 24 Aug 19:26
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darwinian selection has nothing to do with aging. thatās religious right / 1920s robber baron bullshit.
kieron115@startrek.website
on 24 Aug 19:50
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Except that it isnāt a religious thing. I donāt know if it was natural selection or societal pressure causing artificial selection, but humanās are something of an evolutionary anomaly in the sense that the only other animals on earth who go through menopause are a few species of whales. Thereās a whole evolutionary hypothesis tied to it called the grandmother hypothesis. Or you can watch this PBS video about it if you donāt feel like reading. Itās pretty interesting really.
Edit: Iām also just gonna paste a paragraph from the wikipedia if people want the tl;dr.
Evolutionary theory dictates that all organisms invest heavily in reproduction in order to replicate their genes. According to parental investment, human females will invest heavily in their young because the number of mating opportunities available to them and how many offspring they are able to produce in a given amount of time is fixed by the biology of their sex. This inter birth interval (IBI) is a limiting factor in how many children a woman can have because of the extended developmental period that human children experience. Extended childhood, like the extended post-reproductive lifespan for females, is relatively unique to humans.[8] Because of this correlation, human grandmothers are well-poised to provide supplemental parental care to their offspringās children. Since their grandchildren still carry a portion of their genes, it is still in the grandmotherās genetic interest to ensure those children survive to reproduction.
nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world
on 24 Aug 19:50
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Actually having elders in human societies is shown to positively correlate with better outcomes for the youth in that society. Grandmothers in particular have a measurable benefit.
kieron115@startrek.website
on 24 Aug 20:06
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Yeah. One idea is that, since our offspring take SO long to mature and take so many resources relative to other animals, that it makes more sense at some point for mothers to devote their resources to existing children rather than focus on trying to have more. So it benefits us as a species to have āsupportā people like grandmas in our society. This is getting into a tangent but there are all sorts of things that kinda āmake senseā if you think about life before modern society. Homosexual men would have probably been an evolutionary advantage to a clan of early humans since it would have provided extra strong male bodies without adding to mating pressure. People with a preference for staying up at night and sleeping during the day could have provided more alert guards to watch for predators. Etc etc.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
on 25 Aug 18:36
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What about ADHD people?
kieron115@startrek.website
on 25 Aug 19:38
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Some of our greatest minds are ADHD, probably bc ADHD brains seem to approach problems in generally more innovative/non-traditional ways than neurotypicals. It can also foster intense motivation in people. Bill Gates, for example, has been open about his struggles with ADHD. Many scholars believe that Albert Einstein struggled with AuDHD (ADHD with autism, which wasnāt in the American DSM until fairly recently).
kieron115@startrek.website
on 24 Aug 20:22
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I posted this further down but you would enjoy it if you havenāt seen it already. The end of the video supports your statement. Why Your Grandmother Is an Evolutionary Mystery
fact that old people are prevalent in human society is the proof that we are compassionate and loving creatures
It could be media/social programing from perspective of the wiser imposed on the foolish.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 24 Aug 23:32
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Sure, in the context of physical abilities.
However, i think bands of hominids who care for each other have a survival advantage. I guess thats who weāve evolved to be social creatures.
Also, nanna might not be able to hunt mammoths anymore, but she knows what to do in years when the mammoth dont come.
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml
on 24 Aug 23:48
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It was Herbert Spencer who coined the phrase āsurvival of the fittest,ā and felt that Darwinās biological theory of natural selection could be expanded to other aspects of society like philosophy and economics. His writings were misinterpreted by the creators of social Darwinism theory and eugenicists.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world
on 25 Aug 01:50
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There are other species which have elderly members, namely whales and elephants.
Itās postulated that having grandmothers helps in a species where young take a long time to mature.
kieron115@startrek.website
on 25 Aug 19:40
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The thing is, for it to be an evolutionary advantage it canāt be common. Thatās one theory behind why grandmas arenāt more common in species.
And how many successful actually productive and generous persons alive wore glasses? Yep, you entered another mind trap.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
on 25 Aug 18:39
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What was that study again? Something like 30% of people would just swerve into a fake turtle to kill it, for no fucking reason at all. TL;DR Thereās an anomaly alright, murdery people.
kieron115@startrek.website
on 24 Aug 21:17
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Iām supposed to be cleaning but now Iām laughing too hard imagining some āsaturday morning cartoonā tokusatsu show about a squad of mecha-grandmas.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz
on 24 Aug 21:45
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Tonight on Lifetime-Japan, Speed Walkers - A motley crew of septuagenarians must defeat the evil doer, osteoarthritis man, else they will be forced to deal with painful joints! Can these grizzled grandmas come out victorious? Tune in to find out!
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
on 24 Aug 21:30
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About time they did something for the furries.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
on 24 Aug 21:32
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Imagine working in a retirement home and one day one of the residents tells you āI am taking part in this clinical trialā and then she comes back as Doctor fucking Octopus.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 25 Aug 00:37
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Fuck. Yes. Id make so many comments about killing spider man.
I just want a third arm, is that too much to ask? Imagine how many tasks would be easier with that.
vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world
on 25 Aug 11:54
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Say a prayer to the Four-Armed Emperor.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
on 24 Aug 22:20
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Looking at other papers from the same lab and this is the silliest paper Iāve ever seen, theyāre evaluating the effect of shining rgb lights at glass noodles on the eating experience
And also sitting down is hard now. But yeah, you have to imagine all the stabilization your muscles used to do are now taken care of by this robot tail. So atrophy away!
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
on 25 Aug 01:27
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Eventually the tail offers to curl up and carry you, then weāre just a step away from the Wall-E chairs
Money for elderly that can prevent them from needing very expensive nursing home care is a huge market with no limit if the product works well. Especially for Japan but really everywhere will have increasingly large cohorts of their elderly people with not enough young people to care for them.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
on 24 Aug 23:52
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I have a feeling a completely different audience has a definite interest. They would just cover it in the same fur as the rest of their costume.
Just because we could talk to a whale wouldnāt make them a furry. They need to be anthropoidal to be a furry.
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
on 25 Aug 13:38
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I said upgrade.
Letās make their bodies more enjoyable for us to see. If we never meet aliens, letās make them.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 25 Aug 18:53
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But thatās not an upgrade, it would be a lateral mov. Maube there are whales or eleohsnts with the same weird kinks as us; we donāt know: never asked.
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
on 25 Aug 23:27
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Upgrade for us. š
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 26 Aug 02:31
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Thars what im saying. Get the tech toove persons of any spevies ibto being weird kinky fucks.
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
on 26 Aug 02:43
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No like, getting fuck able furries would be an upgrade for our mental peace.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 26 Aug 02:46
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Oh! Got it. At least for the furs. And i do support them having nice things. Plus weād probably learn a fuck-ton thats useful in the rest of medicine from trying.
Yes actually, weāve been studying the language of whales and cetaceans for decades, the study you are referencing, which ended tragically, was part of that ongoing research.
We are closer than ever to unlocking whale language, and have identified several key areas that are hinting that they have actual grammar, such as connecting sounds between repeated ātermsā but even with our best tech, we may never be able to hold a conversation with them, as we live in such vastly different worlds that we can assume that they have extremely different perceptions and may not have the foundational experiences necessary to share words and language.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 25 Aug 20:00
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Dude, we jack off about first contact math abd how we would talk to aliens. Seti was(is?) A thing.
If we cant talk to fuckers whose antique bones my grandmother decorated her room with, whose grandmother read by the light of the burning flesh of? We have no god damn right to be calling ourselves intelligent or civilized as a species.
I donāt think I want another class of slave/sex trafficking victims, we have enough problems with manmade horrors creating hell on earth for sentient creatures, we donāt need to make them sapient as well.
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
on 25 Aug 23:29
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Nah, letās do it.
Better to have practice right now than to commit the same mistakes when we meet aliens out there.
This planet is our cradle. Our place of learning. Our tutorial level.
My so-called government just canceled nearly every space probe and scientific endeavor planned for the next decade, de-orbited two climate monitoring satellites for no reason other than performative politics, put a stop to windmill energy farms, effectively pardoned one of the worst sex traffickers in the world to avoid being found complicit, armed a genocide, and the supreme court is deciding on how legal it is to arrest someone for not being white.
Iāmma say naw dog. The only way I could possibly condone uplifting any non-human creatures at this point is if theyāre designed to surpass us in every way and utterly overpower our species almost immediately so that we donāt make it out into the stars. We are a scourge, a pox upon our world. I didnāt even get into factory farming and what weāre doing every day to animals for profit.
I say this as someone who grew up watching Star Trek and reading Sagan. The stars are not for us. We are the same horrible primates who smashed each others heads in with rocks for a million years before we discovered agriculture and money. Same creature, more complicated excuses to smash heads.
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
on 26 Aug 02:45
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Ok cancer cell. Go whine in your pathetic self esteem and let us humanity fuck yeah followers to bask in our glorious species.
The stars are ours for the taking and xenos should tremble. A safe galaxy is a human galaxy.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works
on 25 Aug 02:51
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honestly the best posture advice I have ever gotten is to sit like I have a tail (you would have to tilt your hips forward and stick your butt out behind you to put the tail up behind you rather than curling your tailbone under such that youād be sitting on the tail).
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 25 Aug 04:24
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Same for this Tail, there are better system to solve postural problems, walking difficulties and other physical issues. How will you simply sit down with this tail? Or precisely in Japan, entering in an Subway with it? They often invent overcomplicated solutions without need, for easy to solve problems, above solving it only tangential and even adding more problems.
Ideally it would work as a seat that automatically braces under the user if they fall backwards, or just is able to touch the ground and help the user not lose balance, then revert to walking-balancing mode when the user stands up again.
It genuinely could have beneficial use for people with mobility problems, itās too bad these uses are going to be utterly drowned out by furries looking for new accessories to feel unique.
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world
on 25 Aug 19:52
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Can I... uhhm... get one too? Maybe a little more fluffy? Ohh, and it would be nice if it could wag too... U know... Just for... uhhm... balancing purposes...
I was a bit surprised because I had never heard of that research group, but apparently they are not from the engineering department, but from media design.
Here is some more Info, if anyone is curious. But it seems more like a concept paper, than an extra prototype.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
on 25 Aug 17:16
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Iād get 5 so I can work without hands.
mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works
on 25 Aug 22:17
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Be careful or youāre gonna end up fighting Spiderman.
lol I know enough that i stopped doing commissions for furries over a decade ago because there were so many who took it too far and then got way too serious like this ^
edit after regretting checking bio: really guys, you can roleplay as colony organisms and refrigerators and small planets and whatever else all you want, at least try to sound like youāre having fun doing it. Have some self awareness and make your alternative identity a source of joy for yourself and others and you will get a lot more acceptance.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
on 25 Aug 19:56
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OwO
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
on 25 Aug 20:25
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glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz
on 25 Aug 19:59
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looks like human godzilla
ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world
on 25 Aug 20:01
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Just what the japanes elderly need, a heavy battery powered contraption strapped to their waist to be more stable. Iāve also heard in Tokyo that everyone is always 5ft apart from one another, plenty of room to be whipping a pseudo tail around.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
on 25 Aug 20:23
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Oh that rural Tokyo, where the rice fields go on further than the eye can see. This would be super helpful navigating those plank bridges.
Just uhhā¦give it a few wheels, optimally in the frontā¦like make it 4 wheels and they can grab 2 handles with brakes to stabilize on slopes. They might not even have to use the tail too much
ā¦ohā¦thatās just a walker, isnāt it?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
on 26 Aug 15:18
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a walker but strap 2 jet engines to it
Drekaridill@feddit.is
on 26 Aug 17:56
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The elderly and disabled will not be their biggest client base.
threaded - newest
Furry costumes just got more lifelike.
Donāt hide it Japan, youāre just doing this to make cat girls
Why stop there? I want my dog and fox and wolf girls too
How about horse girls?
Nothing comes between a horse girl and her daddyās money.
Beware the horse barrel racing girl.
Beware the chuck wagon racing girl!
Luckily you can already get those at your local stable AND with a bit of leather at your local bdsm club!
Wonāt someone think of the poor working class furries? A fur suit can already cost 10 or 20 grand. Now theyāre going to have to add cyborg body parts to the mix as well? Talk about gentrification!
Gerontofication, in this case.
Gentoworifation
just get your slightly used weirdly moist tail used at half off!
The rich are going to take every last thing from us
wait what. i made one for 200 bucks that the theater program i made it for is still using 30 years later (i build shit to last). you mean i could make money doing that?
Iām not in that community myself, but from what I hear a high quality for suit can cost $10-20k. Not sure what differences in construction may exist between those and what you made. But some artists definitely make decent livings making them.
Mmhmm. A nice head is 2kUSD or more. A whole custom suit starts at maybe 10, 15k, and can easily exceed 20.
I can believe it for the head. I had to build a horse head the next year and it was hard as fuck.
Cooling systems, animatronics, durability.
Iām not part of that community, but Iāve built props for advertisements and museum installations; durability and reliability are where most of the money is, especially in low volume products.
Looks more like Mecha-Godzilla, tho.
Also these ears will help to uh, absorb the echoes and extra noise of the world around you. Yeah.
Wait, I ā¦ could make human-cat hears that actually have microphones in them and that turn towards the gaze and they could actually ear out of them if theyāre wearing linked earphones ā¦ could even do some psychoacoustic filtering to give some kind of āsuperearingā ability ā¦ Then some cunt like Elon is going to just steal my ideaā¦ meh. ā¦ eff it
Damn, this is totally gonna be a thing, and Iām all for it. We shall all become cute cat girls.
Why do I keep doing this
Use a combination of different size microphones diaphragms and not just MEMS devices, Use the earshape parabolic concentration points for finding the optimal location and orientation of diaphragms include ultrasonic transceivers for out of band perception (also echolocation, room mapping, darksight) also to allow covert/out of band ultrasound communication with other catgirls that normies cannot hear (that means connecting transceivers AS transceivers, with US band amplifier for transmission) Using servogalvos to modify ear shape for acoustic focusing, if ear direction is using a gear drive, use double helical gear and a low acoustic profile dampening coating on the gears (acoustic anti-reflection) because we are making a listening device and we donāt want to listen to gear noises ! Consider ultrasonic motors instead of geared drive. Software wise, using direct wifi and ble for communication (DECT sucks, proprietary standard sucks) this should work with a raspberry pi and only open source software out of the box, no drivers needed, yes that means multichannel transmission and do all the processing off device actual software, weāre using the various microphones as an asynchronous, heterogenous phased array, unlike regular phased arrays which have many identifical receivers along a straight plane here we are going to skip a couple technological steps and use āreceiver diversityā in the phased array design, so not only are the receivers in different places NOT on a plane, they are also receivers with different acoustic profiles (different sensibility of different frequencies) and anisotropic (due to ear ālens-shapeā) reception patterns, so all of that diversity has to be correlated between all receivers to create an acoustic map of the world, so that we can decide also what sounds are psychoacoustically relevant and point the ears in that direction, listen if the received signal is actually signal or noise and then send that to the user, in realtime (max processing time is 20ms top end) make sure ear shape flexibility is enough to receive and focus some signal backwardsā¦ thereās still a few things to consider but I think thatās mostly it, for the earbud, use close loop ear canal acoustic feedback for the amplifier drive, use only open standards and open firmware in all devices. System to use myoelectic ear movement as control input feedback, at least with these two modes, ear movement to manual steering of the acoustic phased array, and the other ear movement to select auditory focus of signal sources (that is, automatic switching between detected relevant auditory sources). Add RED+IR laser pointer to the ears that can be used as a pointed, to indicate (covertly for IR) which auditory source is currently select and in what direction this signal currently use (ensure positional live tracking is reflected in beam direction). Use sub-vocal command interface for higher function control of the listening device. Provide standardized pattern and calibration equipment definition for microphone correlation calibration, use only open hardware assemblages. Include live transcription to text of all received text, ensure at least capacity for 12 simultaneous audio to text transcription channel, include live audio MP3QR decoding and all other digital audio transmission standard live decoding and transcription as part of the transcription channel capability. Include text summary ability, include voice signature automatic identification and tagging of decoded text stream, at least 4 terabyte storage space, maximum head weight 150 gram excluding battery, battery system must have 1 minute with no battery operation time or dual battery swapping system. include hardware audio encoder and decoder supporting all current ffmpeg codecs. Include acoustic counter battery targetting receiver system. Oh almost forgot, dual laser system mounted with microprism(for aimed laser microphone ability, to listen sounds through walls or from vibrating surfaces)
Ok Machine, convert this schizo-ing document into Ratheon Cybernetic Auditory Telemetry & Echolocation with Anisotropic Reception (CAT&EAR) engineering requirement draft document
š°ļø Raytheon CAT&EAR System
Cybernetic Auditory Telemetry & Echolocation with Anisotropic Reception
Engineering Requirements Draft ā v1.0
š Document Overview
This document outlines the full set of engineering requirements for the CAT&EAR system, a wearable, cybernetic auditory perception platform. CAT&EAR is a heterogeneous, phased-array auditory sensor suite that uses biomimetic design, ultrasonic telemetry, laser vibrometry, and advanced audio signal processing to enable real-time environmental awareness and communication. The system is designed to operate autonomously, using only open standards and open-source software, while supporting embedded AI-driven perceptual functions. This document reflects both functional and non-functional requirements for CAT&EAR across all relevant subsystems.
The CAT&EAR system (Cybernetic Auditory Telemetry & Echolocation with Anisotropic Reception) is a next-generation, wearable auditory intelligence platform designed for advanced signal perception, real-time environmental awareness, and covert communication. It leverages a biomimetic ear design combined with a heterogeneous microphone arrayāfeaturing diverse diaphragms and directional acoustic profilesāto form an asynchronous, non-planar phased array. This allows it to isolate, enhance, and track psychoacoustically relevant audio sources with high spatial precision, even in noisy or cluttered environments. Real-time beamforming, signal classification, and source switching are handled off-device via open-source DSP pipelines, ensuring low latency (ā¤20 ms) and full operational transparency.
In addition to traditional sound acquisition, CAT&EAR incorporates ultrasonic echolocation and laser vibrometry, enabling through-wall audio surveillance and remote surface vibration analysis using IR/RED laser beams with microprism-guided targeting. The system includes a covert ultrasonic communication channel, allowing encrypted, inaudible data exchange between unitsāideal for non-verbal team coordination. Myoelectric sensors and sub-vocal command inputs provide silent, intuitive control interfaces for users, allowing manual beam steering or hands-free selection of tracked sound sources. Ear motion actuators and a visible/infrared laser pointer visually indicate attention direction, enhancing situational awareness without audible cues.
Field usage scenarios include reconnaissance, electronic surveillance, remote eavesdropping, low-visibility communication, and audio-based environmental mapping in both urban and wilderness environments. The system is optimized for silent operation, rapid deployment, and open hardware integration. All processing occurs locally or on an open compute platform (e.g., Raspberry Pi), with no reliance on proprietary software or cloud infrastructure. With up to 12-channel live transcription, digital audio decoding, 4TB onboard storage, and support for all major codecs, CAT&EAR serves both tactical intelligence roles and high-end experimental research in audio-based perception systems.
System requirements
š¤ Microphone Array & Acoustic Sensors
Mic Diaphragm Diversity ā Use MEMS and larger diaphragm mics.
Earshape Mic Placement ā Place mics at parabolic acoustic focus points.
Ultrasound Transceivers ā Include US sensors for echolocation and darksight.
Ultrasound Data Comms ā Use US transceivers for covert device communication.
Heterogeneous Phased Array ā Mic array shall be non-planar and diverse.
Frequency-Profile Diversity ā Use mics with different frequency sensitivities.
Anisotropic Reception ā Account for directional response patterns from ear shape.
Psychoacoustic Focus ā Detect and prioritize perceptually relevant signals.
Mic Cross-Correlation ā Synchronize all mic data spatially and temporally.
Real-Time Acoustic Map ā Build a 3D sound map from multi-mic input.
Mic Calibration Pattern ā Provide physical pattern for mic array calibration.
Open Hardware Calibration ā Use only open hardware for calibration tools.
š§ Ultrasonic Subsystem
Ultrasound Mapping ā Perform echolocation for 3D environmental awareness.
True Transceiver Mode ā Ultrasound sensors must transmit and receive.
Ultrasound Band Amp ā Include amplifier suitable for US transmission.
Covert US Communication ā Transmit data in inaudible US band.
Spatial Mapping via US ā Derive positional data from ultrasound TOF.
š Ear Shape & Actuation
Dynamic Ear Focus ā Use moving ear shapes to focus sound.
Servo Actuated Ears ā Use servos to reorient ears toward signals.
Double Helical Gears ā Use quiet gears for mechanical actua
My robot detector is going offā¦ looks GPTādā¦
How can you tell ?
Is it the em-dashes I left in ?
Or is it when I said
If I wanted to, believe you me, I could have gotten the Gepetto taste out of this
But Iām not here to play cat and mouse games, Iām here to make the best goddamn cat hear youāve never heard of.
It was the emojis used as bullet points, some that were not situationally relevant.
BTW I made those spoiler tags because the bullet points are categories of design requirements and the list would have been annoyingly long for anyone scrolling past
They need to increase their birthrate somehow.
So, uh, you reckon you could fit eight of those on one person?
I think we can do just four
contrary to popular beliefs real cat girls do exist in Japan. there is more information on the internet redlib.orangenet.cc/r/realscatgirls . unfortunately itās on reddit not on lemmy (yet).
hehe fuck you
:3
who tf upvoted this
it was you wasnt it
no, I removed the default upvote
Good shit
Is it prehensile? This could lead to octopus-like abilities if you added more than one.
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Good, gooood. It's all coming together.
catgirl mecha, if weāre being precise.
This feels more like monkey nannas. An entirely more niche kink.
How about bionic ear appendages to combat hearing loss?
Hearing aids?
No, cat ears.
Is that like a sexually transmitted ear infection?
Soonā¦
No, itās aurally transmitted.
Nice š š
Yeah, thatāll help elderly people with mobility issues ā hucking another 5 kg of metal, motors and batteries around.
The way itās depicted, the weight will be felt around the center point of the body. Thatās where it exerts the least force. Also I contest the notion that a difference of 5kg is that significant, even in elderly people.
Where the weight acts is significant imo, and the hips near the spine is probably most stable.
One of the typical bits of advice for elderly folks walking around is a five pound limit on carried items, so five kilos is probably going to affect things more. Poor mobility is a downward line though, not a sudden switch that is flipped, so there is a range of walking difficulties and Iām sure some of that range will be helped by a device like this.
Carried itens put strain along the sholders and entire spine, and contribute to a high center of gravity. Waist mounted items (like this tail) put strain on only the hips and legs, and in the most stable way. Iād only be worried if there was a particular problem with hips or legs.
Make it fluffy and Iām in
Also allow us to whip the tail too š
I gotta be able to flick it around at will yes
I can imagine some will accidently put it on back to front, then either look confused as to whats happening or laugh in a sexually cringing kinda way š
Or scaly.
Or covered in suckers.
Or feathers.
Not for me thanks but I love this for people who would
Oh, right, covered in wood too.
Lol
This is just the first step towards making Dr Octopuss a reality. AND WE DONāT HAVE SPIDERMAN TO SAVE US!!!
Why do we need a spiderman? Iāve got two granny-pusses and a grandpaussy in the retirement home that can come put a squash on any shenanigans.
I would say itās more like Scorpion (the tail) meets Vulture (the elderly).
THIS is, yes, but theyāre saying its the first step.
Donāt worry, Walmart is working on creating Shrimpman
Is that photo AI? All the videos of the real prototype look substantially different.
youtu.be/vLwpMu_msW0
Youāre right, it seems. That video is old (6 years), but I couldnāt find any photos or videos that look substantially different from it.
āArque tailā is the keywords to search for, if anyone wants to do their own research.
At best itās concept art, tho that thin strap probably wouldnāt serve the purpose theyāre looking for. At worst itās generated by clickbait article writers.
How could they pass up an āelectrified facehugger penis sheathā image like this?
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www.cnn.com/style/article/ā¦/index.html
fr tho itās pretty cool research
Iām just imagining the scene in a sci fi comedy.
āI thought you said we were getting mechanical tails? Why the Hell is this attached to my front?ā
āExperiments determined that this was actually the more effective and cheaper option. Donāt worry, a front tail works just fine for balance!ā
That one looks attached at the front ...
Do people just use āAIā now instead of āPhotoshoppedā
What kind of office chair has one leg thatās 50% longer than the others and why is there a tube extending directly downward from the ceiling to above that chair? People cranking out this sort of thing absolutely use AI instead of Photoshop now.
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Iāve always wanted to be a T.Rex.
Rotate 180 degrees and consider the pegging possibilities. Some modifications required of course.
No modifications required, itās fine as is.
Can we wear these if we donāt have balance issues? Asking for a friend.
This might be the most Japanese thing Iāve ever seen
About time this cyberpunk timeline got on with the cool bits
Is belt mounted the only attachment option? Asking for a friend.
Finally something so I can walk home when drunk.
Both sysadmins and hentai enthusiasts rejoice!
Did you really need to specify the same thing twice?
Lol, actually, I was even thinking of specifically additionally naming elderly sysadmins and elderly hentai enthusiasts too ā¦
Improve it by covering it in fake skin, the same used on limb prosthesis! /s
Would the tail improve the movements for a Shinobi?
I posted this comment on another thread:
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My elation can't be measured.
I have good news and bad news
Ok. I just want the good news.
A robotic tail exists
The next thing I need is an articulated mouth and the ability to spit fire. And spikes on my back!
For balance as well, obviously.
I would put it on the front
Will it stop my girlfriend from poking at my butthole when Iām above her on the stairs?
Nothing will
To be fair you are supposed to get her back when sheās above you, its unwritten relationship code.
Ladies first, for this reason
Now you can iron tail her if she tries some shit. Let her know whoās the real PokĆ©mon master.
Cat girls or helping the elderly walk steadily?
Both?
Itās Japan, it was definitely Cat Girls first, literally any justification to spend money developing this second.
If it were me itād be a dragon tail, but to each their own.
All I want is a wiggling bunny tail š„ŗ
Iād do the Saiyan monkey tail, I already have everything else covered.
Cat girl GILFs
In all seriousness, human elderlies are actually evolutionary anomaly, because if Darwinian tenet of āsurvival of the fittestā applies 100% of the time, they would not be the norm. But the fact that old people are prevalent in human society is the proof that we are compassionate and loving creatures that transcend cold evolutionary programming. We care for others and the vulnerable.
Almost all of it comes down to how long it takes to raise children. It takes a lot more people and effort and time to raise humans vs any other species, and its made us unique in that we have essentially support roles. Elderly people, people who canāt or dont want to have kids of their own, even older children, all have a role to play in making sure we make it to adulthood and continue the species.
Does anyone currently have any elders taking care of their kids? Or having done so?
The current generation of Elders living today arenāt doing shit for support.
I would argue given how much voting power they have - they are actively making it worse for
parentseveryoneI think itās less common in north america than in other continents.
Itās becoming more common where I am for a couple to move back to somewhere near one of their sets of parents before they have kids so they can rely on them for occasional childcare since both of the new parents usually have jobs
The grandparents have jobs as well here in uk so nobody has families anymoreā¦
Yes, my mother in law is living with us and helping is to take care of our 4 years old and 2 years old
The āgrandmother theoryā is supporting this idea.
The idea is that past a certain age there is an evolutionary benefit to not be able to have kids anymore. Past a certain age, to pass our genes itās more beneficial to be able to help descendants with their kids rather than having kids on our own.
darwinian selection has nothing to do with aging. thatās religious right / 1920s robber baron bullshit.
Except that it isnāt a religious thing. I donāt know if it was natural selection or societal pressure causing artificial selection, but humanās are something of an evolutionary anomaly in the sense that the only other animals on earth who go through menopause are a few species of whales. Thereās a whole evolutionary hypothesis tied to it called the grandmother hypothesis. Or you can watch this PBS video about it if you donāt feel like reading. Itās pretty interesting really.
Edit: Iām also just gonna paste a paragraph from the wikipedia if people want the tl;dr.
Actually having elders in human societies is shown to positively correlate with better outcomes for the youth in that society. Grandmothers in particular have a measurable benefit.
elifesciences.org/articles/92914
www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93652-4
Yeah. One idea is that, since our offspring take SO long to mature and take so many resources relative to other animals, that it makes more sense at some point for mothers to devote their resources to existing children rather than focus on trying to have more. So it benefits us as a species to have āsupportā people like grandmas in our society. This is getting into a tangent but there are all sorts of things that kinda āmake senseā if you think about life before modern society. Homosexual men would have probably been an evolutionary advantage to a clan of early humans since it would have provided extra strong male bodies without adding to mating pressure. People with a preference for staying up at night and sleeping during the day could have provided more alert guards to watch for predators. Etc etc.
What about ADHD people?
Some of our greatest minds are ADHD, probably bc ADHD brains seem to approach problems in generally more innovative/non-traditional ways than neurotypicals. It can also foster intense motivation in people. Bill Gates, for example, has been open about his struggles with ADHD. Many scholars believe that Albert Einstein struggled with AuDHD (ADHD with autism, which wasnāt in the American DSM until fairly recently).
thebrainworkshop.com/ā¦/successful-people-with-adhā¦
www.additudemag.com/ā¦/famous-people-with-adhd/
Ohh, add this recent episode of Radiolab to the list.
radiolab.org/podcast/the-menopause-mystery
I posted this further down but you would enjoy it if you havenāt seen it already. The end of the video supports your statement. Why Your Grandmother Is an Evolutionary Mystery
It could be media/social programing from perspective of the wiser imposed on the foolish.
Sure, in the context of physical abilities.
However, i think bands of hominids who care for each other have a survival advantage. I guess thats who weāve evolved to be social creatures.
Also, nanna might not be able to hunt mammoths anymore, but she knows what to do in years when the mammoth dont come.
It was Herbert Spencer who coined the phrase āsurvival of the fittest,ā and felt that Darwinās biological theory of natural selection could be expanded to other aspects of society like philosophy and economics. His writings were misinterpreted by the creators of social Darwinism theory and eugenicists.
There are other species which have elderly members, namely whales and elephants.
Itās postulated that having grandmothers helps in a species where young take a long time to mature.
The thing is, for it to be an evolutionary advantage it canāt be common. Thatās one theory behind why grandmas arenāt more common in species.
And how many successful actually productive and generous persons alive wore glasses? Yep, you entered another mind trap.
What was that study again? Something like 30% of people would just swerve into a fake turtle to kill it, for no fucking reason at all. TL;DR Thereās an anomaly alright, murdery people.
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i just want to know if i can wag it and maybe wap someone with it if theyāre walking too close, all with just my brain
Whatās next, litter boxes in nursing homes? /s
Imagine that thing when family come to visit. Wagging. Like. Crazy.
beats using a cane!
Iād buy one. If I could wag it, Iād happily buy two!
Now if it can stab people and drain them of their bioenergy, I can reach my final form!
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Iām supposed to be cleaning but now Iām laughing too hard imagining some āsaturday morning cartoonā tokusatsu show about a squad of mecha-grandmas.
Tonight on Lifetime-Japan, Speed Walkers - A motley crew of septuagenarians must defeat the evil doer, osteoarthritis man, else they will be forced to deal with painful joints! Can these grizzled grandmas come out victorious? Tune in to find out!
What does this word mean?
It encompasses a few genres of live action japanese tv/movies but I was thinking like power rangers/super sentai.
youtu.be/zJ3qtWOz9tE
YES. THIS IS THE GOAL.
mandatory Reptilians conspiracy theory video
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About time they did something for the furries.
Imagine working in a retirement home and one day one of the residents tells you āI am taking part in this clinical trialā and then she comes back as Doctor fucking Octopus.
Fuck. Yes. Id make so many comments about killing spider man.
I just want a third arm, is that too much to ask? Imagine how many tasks would be easier with that.
Say a prayer to the Four-Armed Emperor.
Looking at other papers from the same lab and this is the silliest paper Iāve ever seen, theyāre evaluating the effect of shining rgb lights at glass noodles on the eating experience
arxiv.org/pdf/2502.06069
Wonāt people get used to this, making it harder to walk without it?
And also sitting down is hard now. But yeah, you have to imagine all the stabilization your muscles used to do are now taken care of by this robot tail. So atrophy away!
Eventually the tail offers to curl up and carry you, then weāre just a step away from the Wall-E chairs
Dare to dream!
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What sort of a trophy we talkin here?
Only if itās useful
Exactly, it will work just like glasses, help people avoid real struggle and not do their best to overcome simple issues like aging hips
Yup. Thatās the most cost-effctive solution to the elderly falling problem. Trust me there is no other reason we are doing this.
My dreams of kick boxing like a kangaroo may finally come truee
Money for elderly that can prevent them from needing very expensive nursing home care is a huge market with no limit if the product works well. Especially for Japan but really everywhere will have increasingly large cohorts of their elderly people with not enough young people to care for them.
I have a feeling a completely different audience has a definite interest. They would just cover it in the same fur as the rest of their costume.
I was hoping for research into genetically adding one to a human, but Iāll.take this.
Comes later.
Canāt we just find a way to upgrade the earth animals instead?
We can have real furries that way
Upgrade?
Have we even seriously tried opening dialogue with elephant or whale tribes?
I know we jacked off a bunch of dolphins we raised in captivity, but, likeā¦ Did we send anthropologists anf linguists?
And gave them LSD! Funded by NASA.
The Dolphin Who Loved Me.
Just because we could talk to a whale wouldnāt make them a furry. They need to be anthropoidal to be a furry.
I said upgrade.
Letās make their bodies more enjoyable for us to see. If we never meet aliens, letās make them.
But thatās not an upgrade, it would be a lateral mov. Maube there are whales or eleohsnts with the same weird kinks as us; we donāt know: never asked.
Upgrade for us. š
Thars what im saying. Get the tech toove persons of any spevies ibto being weird kinky fucks.
No like, getting fuck able furries would be an upgrade for our mental peace.
Oh! Got it. At least for the furs. And i do support them having nice things. Plus weād probably learn a fuck-ton thats useful in the rest of medicine from trying.
Yes actually, weāve been studying the language of whales and cetaceans for decades, the study you are referencing, which ended tragically, was part of that ongoing research.
We are closer than ever to unlocking whale language, and have identified several key areas that are hinting that they have actual grammar, such as connecting sounds between repeated ātermsā but even with our best tech, we may never be able to hold a conversation with them, as we live in such vastly different worlds that we can assume that they have extremely different perceptions and may not have the foundational experiences necessary to share words and language.
Dude, we jack off about first contact math abd how we would talk to aliens. Seti was(is?) A thing.
If we cant talk to fuckers whose antique bones my grandmother decorated her room with, whose grandmother read by the light of the burning flesh of? We have no god damn right to be calling ourselves intelligent or civilized as a species.
I donāt think I want another class of slave/sex trafficking victims, we have enough problems with manmade horrors creating hell on earth for sentient creatures, we donāt need to make them sapient as well.
Nah, letās do it.
Better to have practice right now than to commit the same mistakes when we meet aliens out there.
This planet is our cradle. Our place of learning. Our tutorial level.
My so-called government just canceled nearly every space probe and scientific endeavor planned for the next decade, de-orbited two climate monitoring satellites for no reason other than performative politics, put a stop to windmill energy farms, effectively pardoned one of the worst sex traffickers in the world to avoid being found complicit, armed a genocide, and the supreme court is deciding on how legal it is to arrest someone for not being white.
Iāmma say naw dog. The only way I could possibly condone uplifting any non-human creatures at this point is if theyāre designed to surpass us in every way and utterly overpower our species almost immediately so that we donāt make it out into the stars. We are a scourge, a pox upon our world. I didnāt even get into factory farming and what weāre doing every day to animals for profit.
I say this as someone who grew up watching Star Trek and reading Sagan. The stars are not for us. We are the same horrible primates who smashed each others heads in with rocks for a million years before we discovered agriculture and money. Same creature, more complicated excuses to smash heads.
Ok cancer cell. Go whine in your pathetic self esteem and let us humanity fuck yeah followers to bask in our glorious species.
The stars are ours for the taking and xenos should tremble. A safe galaxy is a human galaxy.
Okay go play your games. Hopefully mommy and daddy figure out all the grown-up problems and keep affording your tendies.
Ok cancer cell. Go help eradicate humanity and see how it goes.
:)
You already have the nerves there, and itās quite trivial to connect them to a neurotransmitter, especially since the patent expired.
Finally something to balance the enormous mass I have in front.
If you have an erection lasting more than four hours please contact your doctor.
Heāll probably be pretty impressed and offer a high five.
But how will I then hang my coat?
on your mecha tail, duh
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honestly the best posture advice I have ever gotten is to sit like I have a tail (you would have to tilt your hips forward and stick your butt out behind you to put the tail up behind you rather than curling your tailbone under such that youād be sitting on the tail).
Nobody wants to do that because men are thirsty.
Hahahaha insert of the day š
Iām not sitting improperlyā¦ Itās the patriarchy!
As a five five man I can assure you that I do do this and the only ones thirsty for that are my cats seeking ont my blood.
true as a man, they thirst for my booty when all I care for is good back posture
looks more like a scorpion tail.
Is this a return to monke meme made manifest?
It remeber me an painting of Patrick Woodroffe
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They got the guy three sets of robohands but couldnāt figure out some mechanolegs for him?
Same for this Tail, there are better system to solve postural problems, walking difficulties and other physical issues. How will you simply sit down with this tail? Or precisely in Japan, entering in an Subway with it? They often invent overcomplicated solutions without need, for easy to solve problems, above solving it only tangential and even adding more problems.
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Tails only cars. Obviously. Perfectly economical solution to tack a whole other car for the rich people with theriandroid tails to have space.
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Oh goodness, itās mounted to his HIP. At first glance I thought this was a whole other level of parody product lmao.
Just a pitch: Tail can easily be detached and works as a walking cane.
I do petty every physically sensative individual that has to take overcrowded public transport though
Ideally it would work as a seat that automatically braces under the user if they fall backwards, or just is able to touch the ground and help the user not lose balance, then revert to walking-balancing mode when the user stands up again.
It genuinely could have beneficial use for people with mobility problems, itās too bad these uses are going to be utterly drowned out by furries looking for new accessories to feel unique.
Now that is some kickass artwork
Can I... uhhm... get one too? Maybe a little more fluffy? Ohh, and it would be nice if it could wag too... U know... Just for... uhhm... balancing purposes...
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Theres a few companies that make moving tails (and wings) for a few hundred USD, but they tend to be waitless rather than designed for balancing
Are the wings flyable ?
Have you seen how big a hang glider is? Thatās roughly what a human-mass creature needs to fly.
Future cosplay is going to be lit.
Make it a monkey tail and I could pull off a decent vegetable cosplay.
what about the added weight of the tail? I dont believe elderly got good knees
Yeah we should make it more like the rear-half of a centaur
atp isnāt it just wheelchair but legs
so legchair
I can think of another demographic that would like thisā¦
Itās Japan, we all know what they really invented it for. But they needed something acceptable to put on the grant application
I was a bit surprised because I had never heard of that research group, but apparently they are not from the engineering department, but from media design.
Here is some more Info, if anyone is curious. But it seems more like a concept paper, than an extra prototype.
Iād get 5 so I can work without hands.
Be careful or youāre gonna end up fighting Spiderman.
I fucking need one
For your fursuit.
I donāt have a fursuit.
The really frustrating thing about that fact is that I commissioned and paid for a fursuit, and yet I have no fursuit.
Donāt worry, you get it back after I am done terrorising people at Disneyland.
Why Disneyland you might ask? Iāve never been there, never had a fursuit, never framed somebody and never terrorised large groups of people.
Itās like four birds with one stone, while stone shards are flying everywhere.
All the transspecies creatures here: āwant!ā
Furries. Just call them furries.
No. Some furries might also be transspecies but they are two entirely different things.
There are furries, and there are furries who take things too far.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Please donāt comment again until youāve actually done some research.
lol I know enough that i stopped doing commissions for furries over a decade ago because there were so many who took it too far and then got way too serious like this ^
edit after regretting checking bio: really guys, you can roleplay as colony organisms and refrigerators and small planets and whatever else all you want, at least try to sound like youāre having fun doing it. Have some self awareness and make your alternative identity a source of joy for yourself and others and you will get a lot more acceptance.
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looks like human godzilla
Just what the japanes elderly need, a heavy battery powered contraption strapped to their waist to be more stable. Iāve also heard in Tokyo that everyone is always 5ft apart from one another, plenty of room to be whipping a pseudo tail around.
Oh that rural Tokyo, where the rice fields go on further than the eye can see. This would be super helpful navigating those plank bridges.
Just uhhā¦give it a few wheels, optimally in the frontā¦like make it 4 wheels and they can grab 2 handles with brakes to stabilize on slopes. They might not even have to use the tail too much
ā¦ohā¦thatās just a walker, isnāt it?
a walker but strap 2 jet engines to it
The elderly and disabled will not be their biggest client base.
Does it come in a front side model?